Human Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, if can just make one more point, I want to make it perfectly clear I'm speaking on behalf of seniors here. We don't have too many years left. The need is now. It might be necessary to have a broader policy in regard to child care, and so on and so forth, for the o

Human Resources committee  We can talk about what these two speakers have said, but let me tell you that the timelines would be very lengthy. I think what can be done is to get sufficient money into the hands of people to raise their quality of life and make life bearable for them. There's no problem with

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I come somewhat with of a feeling of cynicism to appear in front of this committee. As an advocate of many years, I've appeared in front of committees similar to yours time and time again. As a matter of fact, as president of the National P

Justice committee  Look, I think it's really necessary to have a broad federal view of that. These characters move from province to province. They con all kinds of people in one province, and if the thing gets hot, they move to another province. I think there is a federal role to be played. I mea

Justice committee  We're only concerned with seniors. The evidence we have is people telling us and hearing from different sources. There haven't been any comprehensive studies to put a number figure on that, but as I said, the great difficulty is that a great number of people just don't report the

Justice committee  To answer your question, yes, I think it should apply to publicly traded securities because seniors deal with a whole range of things. And what we also have seen is that stock exchanges, in many instances, don't have the mechanisms to keep all their listed companies honest. So I

Justice committee  I partially agree with you, but something has to be done because it has become so prevalent and so damaging. In British Columbia a number of seniors committed suicide. There has to be some stop to that carnage in the financial marketplace, because lives depend on it. Maybe it n

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll tell you a bit about our organization. It's been in existence for 57 years. It started largely in the province of Saskatchewan and it has grown to where we now have 380 organizations affiliated to our federation, with an approximate total membership